I beg the Reader, as a further confirmation to what I have observed in the first verse, that the Lord by his servant the Prophet, is here speaking of them, and not as before of him. Whereas, had the first verse referred to Israel in Egypt, there needed no change of numbers here; for the Lord is evidently now speaking of Israel in the plural, even the Lord's Israel the Church. (And this by the way of a change of persons, so frequently to be met with in the sacred writings, ought always to be closely attended to, as a faithful guide to the proper apprehension of the word of God.) The strange propensity of Israel to the worship of the dunghill gods of Egypt, and the nations around need not be mentioned. The Lord makes many gracious expostulations with Israel on this account all the way through; so that it is only to refer to their history everywhere to find instances of it. Reader! what saith the heart of God's Israel even now, after the wonderful calls of grace? Dearest Jesus! how prone are thy people to backslide?
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Hosea 11:2
2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.